Violinist Aisslinn Nosky is joined by the full orchestra for a program of concerti grossi by Handel, Corelli, and Vivaldi. We are eager to welcome everyone home to Portland for the first live in-person performance in over a year! Read about PBO in-person concert health and safety requirements here and other FAQs here.

17th-century London roars to life in this convivial program of jovial drinking songs, love ballads both naughty and nice, and rustic catches for carousing with friends. We share tales of pickpockets and punks, wise maids and goodfellows, the wonders of tobacco, the pitfalls of gambling, and the delights of good ale. Between toasts, we contemplate …

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In our inaugural concerts returning to live performance, follow The Paris Quartet—an ensemble of Bay Area luminaries with reputations far beyond—as they demonstrate the blossoming of the trio into the quartet, with one or two voices multiplying into four separate and distinct lines, with each instrument having its own unique part to play. The concert …

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Heroines and villainesses from Agrippina to Xanthippe in scenes by George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, and the Viennese master, Georg Reutter. Plus Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Women of Antiquity” suite. Mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle joins the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra and the otherworldly accompaniment of the baroque hammered dulcimer.

Los Angeles-based choir Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble honors composer Josquin des Prez on the 500th anniversary of his death. His best known mass, Missa Pange lingua, will form the centerpiece of a program that will also include motets, chansons and even an homage to a cricket! Masks and proof of COVID vaccination required for all attendees.

Concert: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, It’s FR2! Joris Van Goethem and Tom Beeths of the Flanders Recorder Quartet have teamed up together during lockdown to make their first recorder duet CD. The gentlemen are presenting snippets of their album during this pre-recorded concert. It promises to be a varied evening of expected and …

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Sung Lee, baroque oboist, oboe d'amore and recorder joins Carolina Pro Musica for a concert of music by Telemann, Bach, and Handel.  The ensemble includes Rebecca Miller Saunders, soprano; Edward Ferrell, traverso and recorder; Gail Ann Schroeder, viola da gamba, and Karen Hite Jacob, harpsichord.

Mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez, a towering figure in Western music, by being an active participant in re-creating his extraordinary music! Internationally celebrated conductor Harold Rosenbaum will be leading fourteen open community sing-in/play-ins traversing Josquin’s known choral repertoire. Singers and instrumentalists, amateur and professional, are invited to …

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Robert Kyr’s A TIME FOR LIFE An Environmental Oratorio October 26, 2022 Alexander Lingas, conductor Cappella Romana will perform Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life before embarking on a tour to present the oratorio to the man who inspired this work, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch.

Tonight's event is postponed due to inclement weather and will be rescheduled. The Plimoth colonists, or “Pilgrims” as they were later called, were a diverse group of Separatists and Anglicans, religious zealots and irreverent opportunists. They brought with them music experiences as varied as their reasons for coming to the New World, and the Plimoth …

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Selections from Bach's The Art of the Fugue Gavin Black will play a selection of movements from The Art of the Fugue, chosen to make a coherent overall arc, amounting to a bit less than half of the entire work. He will perform on a Keith Hill German double-manual harpsichord. Gabin Black ~ harpsichord

The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields, directed by David Shuler, presents Palestrina: Prince of Music. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ranks as one of the towering figures in the music of the late 16th century. His best known work, the Missa Papae Marcelli, composed c.1561, is dedicated to Pope Marcellus II, who established the …

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Conceived & programmed by Marco Cera Scripted by Marco Cera & Nicholas Wallace Stage direction by Ryan Joyce Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Directed by Elisa Citterio Nicholas Wallace magician Quinten Melo contortionist Online Premiere: October 28, 2021, 8pm EDT Open your eyes and ears to the world of illusion and enchantment in this new digital concert blending two captivating art forms. Musicians and magicians …

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Enjoy dinner and live performances by 10 musicians, including incoming artistic director Liza Malamut on trombone, at this fundraiser for the Newberry Consort.

DIXIT DOMINUS HWV 232 G.F. Händel CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN BWV 4 J.S. Bach   One set Rome on musical fire, while the other deepened his musical roots at home in Thuringia. Each would forge their own path and leave a distinct musical mark. October 30, 2021, 7:00 p.m. All Souls' Episcopal Church 1475 Catalina …

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Early Music Foundation Presents   Early Music New York Frederick Renz, Director   A FAMILY AFFAIR The Haydns and the Mozarts   Frederick Renz leads EM/NY’s classical orchestra in symphonic works from two illustrious 18th-century musical dynasties: the Haydns—Joseph and his well-respected but overshadowed younger brother Michael; and the Mozarts—Leopold and his prodigious son Wolfgang …

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Built by noted craftsman John Brombaugh, Oberlin College and Conservatory's Bridge Memorial Organ in Fairchild Chapel—fashioned in the style of the German Renaissance—turns 40 this year. The occasion will be celebrated with a series of three performances by Oberlin faculty and guests as well as a master class with organist William Porter during the weekend …

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Jouyssance honors composer Josquin des Prez on the 500th anniversary of his death. His best known mass, Missa Pange lingua, will form the centerpiece of a program that will also include motets, chansons and even an homage to a cricket! Streaming concert will feature a live introduction and post-concert Q&A by Artistic Director Nicole Baker. …

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